Xmas

 We had one of the best Christmas days ever though it was a lot of hard work.  Mountains of food and even though we had started preparation the night before we were still cooking side dishes and consulting lists till the last minute.  The yorskshire puds were the last to come out of the oven.  They were gulped down by everyone even though the recipe had to be severely tweaked because my scale decided to give up the ghost and 150 grams of flour turned into, I'm not sure how much, but far too much.  Something has to go wrong.  We forgot the garlic bread too darn it.  It stayed in the oven.

Santa Claus was here

He handed out all the presents with the help of two little elves

Pulling Xmas crackers

It was a warm and sunny day.  We had just had a load of firewood delivered and the gang formed a chain and it was all stacked by the back door

We ate inside and then played a game of trivial pursuit, greek version.  My team won.  I played with two of my grandchildren.  I  know all the oldie questions.  About movies starring Charlton Heston and Audrey Hepburn. The grandkids had never heard of them.  Who was the husband of Sophia Loren.  Strange questions really for a greek game.  But there were also general knowledge.  Where did the Aztecs live, who invented the telephone.  The grandkids know greek history, myths. chemistry and maths.  Together we covered all the bases.

There was  loads of laughter and no cheating.  Really, I didn't cheat this time!

After the game we all sat outside until the sun went in.

All the dishes got done, thanks girls once again.  Our leftovers were in the manageable range.  I had warned them all to bring  bowls with them.

A lovely family Christmas